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Rare Tyrannosaurus Skeleton to Be Auctioned

A nearly complete skeleton of a towering Tyrannosaurus bataar is set to go on auction on Sunday (May 20). The skeleton measures some 8-feet (2.4-meters) tall and 24-feet (7.3-meters) long. This is the first full Tyrannosaurus specimen to go on auction since Sue, a Tyrannosaurus rex, sold for $8.3 million...

Spectacular 'Supermoon' Wows Skywatchers Around the World

The biggest full moon of the year, a so-called supermoon, rose into the night sky Saturday to the delight of skywatchers around the world, who captured the lunar sight in dazzling amateur astronomy photos. Because of a fluke of orbital timing, the full moon of May peaked late Saturday just...

This ScienceLives article was provided to LiveScience in partnership with the National Science Foundation. You have probably heard about the great scientific and social dilemma called global warming or climate change. The climate has changed many times in the past, but this time it is changing rapidly because of chemicals...

Dolphins Help Fishermen Catch Fish

A visitor might stumble upon a strange sight in Laguna, Brazil, if they went down to the shore. Here, the local fishermen rely on dolphins to help them with their yearly fish catch. New research has found that just one local group of about 20 dolphins works with the fishermen,...

Manta Rays' Deep-Sea Secrets Revealed

Updated Monday, May 14 at 10:30 a.m. ET. Very little is known about giant manta rays, fish up to 25 feet wide that glide through the ocean like giant underwater bats. Now, in the first study using satellite tracking of the creatures, scientists have teased out a few secrets, including...

Sun-Watching Space Telescope Bounces Back From Glitch

A spacecraft designed to stare at the sun is back up and running after a technical glitch temporarily sidelined the observatory for just over a week. The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), a joint mission by NASA and the European Space Agency, suffered a glitch last week that put the...

Iron Woman: Paralyzed Mom Finishes Marathon With Bionic Legs

It took 16 days, but Claire Lomas of England, paralyzed from the waist down after a horse-riding accident in 2006, completed all 26.2 miles of the London Marathon last week with the help of robotic legs. She had with her at the finish line her 13-month-old daughter, Maisie — also...

10 Iconic Historical Hairstyles (And Why We Love Them)

Vidal Sassoon, the hairstylist credited with ushering out stiff-and-stuffy styles and bringing in short, geometric cuts, died at his home on May 9. But Sassoon's styles weren't the only ones that defined an era. Hairstyles have long been signifiers of culture, religion and values. Here are a 10 iconic styles...

Columbus May Not Have Been First to America

An investigation worthy of a Dan Brown novel has shed new light on the voyages of John Cabot, the Italian navigator and explorer, revealing that he may have had knowledge of European expeditions to the New World that predated Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage. Although commonly credited with discovering America, Christopher...

Hitler Used Cocaine and Had Fart Problem, Medical Records Show

Adolf Hitler farted uncontrollably, used cocaine to clear his sinuses, ingested some 28 drugs at a time and received injections of bull testicle extracts to bolster his libido. The startling revelations come from Hiltler's medical records, now up for auction at Alexander Historical Auctions of Stamford, Conn. (full catalogues here...